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Title: population ecology and community ecology questions
Post by: NAZ on Apr 2, 2011
1) which growth curve would be characteristic of a lizard population in an undisturbed rain forest,logistic or exponential?why?

2)which growth curve would be characteristic of a plant population on a newly formed volcanic island logistic or exponential growth?why?


Title: Re: population ecology and community ecology questions
Post by: biolove on Apr 2, 2011
1) which growth curve would be characteristic of a lizard population in an undisturbed rain forest,logistic or exponential?why?

2)which growth curve would be characteristic of a plant population on a newly formed volcanic island logistic or exponential growth?why?


Title: Re: population ecology and community ecology questions
Post by: NAZ on Apr 2, 2011
THank you for your reply but may i know the reasons to understand it better?


Title: Re: population ecology and community ecology questions
Post by: duddy on Apr 2, 2011
THank you for your reply but may i know the reasons to understand it better?

For 1. Why wouldn't it grow exponential, it has all the resources it wants. The opposite is true for the followers.